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   Département de physique Université Paris Cité

Universidade Federal da Bahia

ARCHIMEDES S.I.E.E. Project

SPHERE-UMR7219-CNRS

APC

 

Présentent

Deux Journées d’histoire et épistémologie des fondements de la mécanique quantique
April 14 et 15, 2023

Amphitheatre Pierre-Gilles de Gennes,

Bâtiment Condorcet
5 rue Elsa Morante
Université de Paris Cité- Département de Physique

75013 Paris

A l’occasion de la parution de

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations

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Comité d’organisation:

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Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Olival Freire, Joseph Kouneiher et Michel Paty

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Nearly a century after its formulation and despite its unprecedented predictive successes in accounting for physical processes, quantum mechanics is still at the center of a lively debate.
In the same spirit as The Oxford handbook of the history of Quantum Interpretations, the two days offer a historical overview of the contrasts that have been at the heart of quantum physics over the past 100 years. Drawing on the extensive expertise of several lecturers working in the fields of physics, history and philosophy.
Thus, the objective of these two days is to fuel the ongoing debate on the foundations of quantum mechanics by dealing with the major open questions concerning the interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.

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Programme

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1er jour - 14 avril

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08:00 – 08:45

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Badges Distributions & breakfast

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08:45 – 09:10

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Opening

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09:10 – 11:10

Alain aspect – l'Institut d'Optique (Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS) École polytechnique

From Bell’s inequalities violations to Quantum Teleportation: non-locality, a useful image.

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Franck Laloë – Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris

A model of quantum collapse induced by Bohmian positions and gravity

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Roger Penrose - University of Oxford

Classical and Quantum Reality, and the Collapse of the Wave-Function

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11:10 – 11:20 – Pause café

 

11:20 – 13:20

 

Wayne Myrvold – The University of Western Ontario

Philosophical Issues Raised by Quantum Theory and its Interpretations

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Helge Kragh – University of Copenhagen

Dead as a Doornail? Zero-Point Energy and Low-Temperature Physics in Early Quantum Theory

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David Kaiser – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell’s Inequality

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Daniela Monaldi – York University

The Evolving Understanding of Quantum Statistics
 

13:20 – 14:20 – Déjeuner

 

14:20 – 16:20

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Alexei Grinbaum – CEA-Saclay/Larsim, France

Quantum Information and the Quest for Reconstruction of Quantum Theory

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Thomas Ryckman – Stanford University

Quantum Interpretations and 20th Century Philosophy of Science

 

Michel Paty – Emeritus Research Director, CNRS

Einstein’s Criticism of Quantum Mechanics

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Christian Joas – University of Copenhagen

Foundations and Applications: The Creative Tension in the Early Development of Quantum Mechanics

16:20 – 16:30 – Pause café

 

16:30 – 19: 00

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Massimiliano Badino – University of Verona

Of Weighting and Counting: Statistics and Ontology in the Old Quantum Theory

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Bernadette Lessel – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)

The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity

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Marc Lachièze-Rey - APC Université Paris cité

Interpréter la physique quantique ! Avec ou sans la gravité ?

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Simon Saunders - Oxford University

The meaning of particle indistinguishability: one hundred years on

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Jeffrey Barrett – UC Irvine

Pure Wave Mechanics, Relative States, and Many Worlds

2ème jour – 15 avril

 

09:00 – 11:00

 

Anja Jacobsen – KVUC, Denmark

Copenhagen and Niels Bohr

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Olival Freire Jr – Universidade Federal da Bahia

Making Sense of the Century-Old Scientific Controversy over the Quanta

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Stefano Osnaghi – Archives Husserl, ENS, Paris

Bohr and the Epistemological Lesson of Quantum Mechanics

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Jean- Jacques Szczeciniarz, Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, and Joseph Kouneiher, Côte d’Azur University

The Philosophy of Wholeness and the General and New Concept of Order: Bohm’s and Penrose’s Points of View
 

11:00 – 11:10 – Pause café

 

11:10 – 13:10

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Giora Hon - University of Haifa, and Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh

Interpretation in Electrodynamics, Atomic Theory, and Quantum Mechanics

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Flavio Del Santo – University of Geneva

The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Post-War Italy’s Cultural Context

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Kristian Camilleri – University of Melbourne

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Post-war Era

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Christoph Lehner – Independent scholar

The Early Debates about the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

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13:10 – 14:10 – Déjeuner

 

14:10 – 16:10

Hervé Zwirn – ENS Paris-Saclay, France

QBism and Convivial Solipsism

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Jean Bricmont – Catholic University of Louvain

Einstein, Bohm, and Bell: A Comedy of Errors

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Sebastian Murgueitio Ramírez – University of Oxford

On How Epistemological Letters Changed the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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Valia Allori – Northern Illinois University

Spontaneous Localization Theories: Quantum Philosophy between History and Physics

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16:10 – 16:20 – Pause café

 

16:20 – 18: 50

 

Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. – Universidade de São Paulo

The Measurement Problem

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Thiago Hartz - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

The Measuring Process in Quantum Field Theory

Jean-Philippe Martinez – Aachen University

Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union

 

Alexei Kojevnikov - The University of British Columbia

Quantum Historiography and Cultural History: Revisiting the Forman Thesis

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Alexander Pechenkin – Lomonosov Moscow State University

The Statistical (Ensemble) Interpretation of Quantum

Mechanics

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